#met

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable. ↗

— Xun Zi

#despise #determination #detestable #evil #good

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal. ↗

— Alton Brown

#based #charcoal #come #culinary #fact

For me, it was kind of like going into the military or something. And anybody - any male - who has ever worked in a French kitchen knows what I am talking about when I say that. ↗

— Alton Brown

#am #any #anybody #ever #french

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#capacity #directing #film #good #had

I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#build #empire #i #met #never

With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic. ↗

— Chris Brown

#amazing #appeal #artist #bring #christmas

Why should we change on stage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way. ↗

— Clancy Brown

#change #doing #fancy #just #keep

Every day you learn something new. ↗

— Dennis Brown

#every #every day #learn #new #something

When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm. ↗

— Xun Zi

#come #could #desirable #detestable #fact

The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#divine #earth #heaven #high #inside